Press Release

Security Council

4736^th Meeting (PM)

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME NEEDS $1.8 BILLION TO ADDRESS AFRICAN

FOOD EMERGENCY, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD

Committee on Charter

and United Nations Role

243^rd Meeting (AM)           

IMPACT OF SANCTIONS, IMPORTANCE OF ADHERING TO UN PRINCIPLES DEBATED

IN CONTEXT OF IRAQ WAR, AS SPECIAL CHARTER COMMITTEE OPENS SESSION

SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES CÔTE D’IVOIRE AGREEMENT ON GOVERNMENT

OF RECONCILIATION AS ‘MAJOR PROGRESS TOWARDS PEACE’

Following is the message of Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the agreement establishing a government of reconciliation in Côte d’Ivoire, delivered on his behalf by his Special Representative, General Albert Tévoedjré, in Yamoussoukro on 3 April:

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT HIGHLIGHTS ‘DIRE’ SITUATION CHILDREN FACE

FROM ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS IN WORLD HEALTH DAY MESSAGE

Following is the message of Jan Kavan (Czech Republic), President of the fifty-seventh Session of the General Assembly, on World Health Day 2003, observed on 7 April:

Security Council

4735^th Meeting (PM)

SECURITY COUNCIL, RESPONDING TO SECURITY CHALLENGES IN TIMOR-LESTE,

DELAYS CUTBACKS IN UN FORCES

Commission on Population and Development

Thirty-sixth Session

7^th Meeting (AM)                          

POPULATION COMMISSION CONCLUDES THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION ON THE THEME:

POPULATION, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

                                                            PI/1470*

HIGH COMMISSIONER PRESENTS REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN COLOMBIA;

URGES END TO PARAMILITARY LINKS

Commission on Human Rights Continues

Review of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

(Reissued as received.)

Round-up of Session

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION

Adopts Final Conclusions

And Recommendations on Reports of Estonia, Luxembourg and Mali

(Reissued as received.)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES UP ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

Experts on Health, Education, Food, Foreign Debt, and Toxic

Wastes Speak; Deputy Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea Gives Address

(Reissued as received.)